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Monday, September 9, 2002
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Skip the skins -- Comment()
On Being Skinned: "Paradoxically, skinnability reduces the expressiveness of a user-interface. It does so by restricting the vocabulary of the interface to those things that can be expressed compatibly with all existing skins. This is a minor problem for applications, and a huge problem for platforms." [kuro5hin.org] I agree: the user interfaces should allow for adding new functionality and new tools, but the basic behavior should be fixed. Much time is wasted by modifications which make the user interface less efficient than before the skinning.
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